Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Twentieth-century American Jewish Writers
ISBN-10
0820444707
ISBN-13
9780820444703
Edition
Annotated
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 5th, 2000
Print length
194 Pages
Weight
300 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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This book gives a political reading of E. L. Doctorow’s fiction. For Doctorow, there was a tension between the ideals of his socially aware family and those of the new critics under whom he studied as an undergraduate. This tension, making him skeptical about the possibilities of political involvement, has been beneficial because it has enabled Doctorow to avoid the excesses of both polemical writing and formalism. Through a stance Tokarczyk terms «skeptical commitment» he has written political fiction of high literary quality. In part, he has done so by adapting genres such as the western and the romance. Furthermore, Doctorow has used experimental techniques to express political and historical themes, thereby writing a kind of postmodern fiction that still maintains the possibility of establishing some truths, while acknowledging indeterminacy.
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